NATO and European Security: Alliance Politics from the End of the Cold War to the Age of Terrorism

by Alexander Moens, Lenard J. Cohen, Allen G. Sens

Overview

From the end of the Cold War to the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, the NATO Alliance has changed profoundly. This book explores the multifaceted consequences of NATO's adjustment to new international and domestic political and security realities. Internal Alliance politics and matters of relative power within the membership have strongly influenced recent NATO developments. Several major issues challenging the Alliance are examined, including how the impact of efforts to develop an enhanced common European security and defense policy have affected NATO: whether missile defense is driving the United States and its European allies closer or further apart; how the experience of NATO in the Balkans and elsewhere brought alliance members together or made MATO cohesion more difficult to maintain; and in what way the changing role of NATO has influenced American and Canadian participation in the Alliance. An important guidepost to pivotal changes and likely NATO developments, scholars and policymakers of Atlantic and international politics will find these meditations indispensable.

A number of authors also speculate on the likely changes for the alliance that will ensue in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the possibility that NATO will soon modify its mission and responsibilities in reaction to the threat of international terrorism. Indeed many of the same strategies and strains that affected NATO cohesion over the past decade are likely to complicate efforts to maintain Alliance unity as part of the anti-terrorist coalition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275976637
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/2003
Series:	Humanistic Perspectives on International Relations
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

ALEXANDER MOENS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Burbanaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Disconcerted Europe: The Search for a New Security Architecture (1994) and Foreign Policy Under Carter: Testing Multiple Advocacy Decision Making (1992).

LENARD J. COHEN is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Burbanaby, British Columbia. He is the author of, among other titles, Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Milosevic (2000) and Broken Bonds: Yugoslavian Disintegration and Balkan Politics (1993).

ALLEN G. SENS is Senior Instructor in the Department of Poltical Science and Chair of the International Relations Program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His most recent publication is World Politics, Origins, Currents, Directions (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: NATO in Transition by Alexander Moens, Lenard J. Cohen, and Allen G. Sens
"Community of Fate" or Marriage of Convenience? ESDP and the Future of Transatlantic Identity by David G. Haglund
The Widening Atlantic, Part II: Transatlanticism and the "New" NATO by Allen G. Sens
Ideas and Discourse in the Construction of a European Security and Defense Policy for the 21st Century by Jolyon Howorth
European Security and Transatlanticism at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Pascal Boniface
Thinking Outside the Box: NATO-ESDP Cooperationat 23 by Alexander Moens
European Security and Defense Policy: What is in It for Canada? by John Bryson
Is Canada a European Country? by Julian Lindley-French
Blue Helmets, Green Helmets, Red Tunics: Canada's Adaptation to the Security in Southeastern Europe by Lenard J. Cohen
NATO's Nuclear Future: A Rationale for NATO's Deterrence Capabilities by Karl-Heinz Kamp
Nuclear Weapons, Ballistic Missile Defense, and the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship by James Fergusson